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The true story inspired by real events chronicles the thrilling rivalry that simmered and grew more intense and mysterious as Harry Houdini and a panel of investigative experts embarked on a quest to debunk the world's most gifted and accurate psychic and spirit medium of the era, Margery Crandon, known as The Witch of Lime Street.

A true story about Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities. Afflicted with multiple personalities due to a childhood filled with abuse, Billy Milligan, livesa nightmarishly schizoid life. Eventually, several of his personalities band together and commit a series of rapes, which results in Billy being put in a hospital for the criminally insane. Now well on the road to mental health, Billy hopes to be set free, but instead finds himself remanded to a hellhole of a mental hospital by a society that still fears him. Inevitably, though, justice prevails. As of this day, Billy leads a productive, sane, freelife.

(Based on a true story) Heavily impacted by his fellow veteran's suicides, George Eshleman (Angus Benfield), an Army Veteran, decides to help raise awareness for military member suicides by hiking the entire nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia. On the trek, he carries 363 name tapes from the uniforms of military members who committed suicide, given to him by their families.

The Survivor is based on the incredible true story of Harry Haft, who, after being sent to Auschwitz, survives not only the unspeakable horrors of the camp, but the gladiatorial boxing spectacle he is forced to perform with his fellow prisoners for the amusement of his captors. Unbeknownst to those who try to destroy him, Haft is driven by the most important reason any man has to survive, a quest to reunite with the woman he loves. After a daring escape, he makes his way to New York, where he succeeds in using his boxing skills to establish a name for himself in the hopes of finding his one true love. His indomitable spirit lands him in the ring with boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as he fights to make sense of his past and reclaim the life that was stolen from him.

Based on a true story about the controversial love affair between an oil baron and his adopted daughter destroys the empire they built together.

An American couple abandons civilization to build a peaceful retreat on a deserted island. Their plans are disrupted when a European countess and her lovers arrive, aiming to take over the island and construct a luxury hotel, leading to conflicts and challenges for the couple.

The true story of Michael Cox, an African American plainclothes officer who is mistakenly beaten during a police chase and then finds himself on the other side of the “blue wall of silence” as the Boston Police Department covers it up.

Set in the summer of 1914, family disputes, tragic misunderstandings, missed opportunities and aristocratic follies lead to the outbreak of the World War I.

William Ellis is born on the U.S.-Mexico border in the twilight of slavery and inhabits a world divided along ambiguous racial lines. Adopting the name Guillermo Eliseo, he passes as Mexican, transcending racial lines to become fabulously wealthy as a Wall Street banker, diplomat, and owner of scores of mines and haciendas south of the border.

The true story about eight women who were prisoners at the Texas' Goree Prison in the 1940s. They formed an all-female country and western act and ended up building a fanbase of millions. The women were eventually pardoned.

Based on the true story of a rookie gang-banger trying to make it out of his gang lifestyle and hot head F.B.I. Agent who team up to infiltrate the organization of a Los Angeles gang leader.

Follows a top-secret mission to aid in the coup d’état of the Ghana government that ultimately went horribly wrong.

True story of the first all-black lacrosse team founded in Baltimore in 1970. Team consisted of off-season college football players from Morgan State University who had never really heard of the game of lacrosse before. Their Jewish coach took them from miserable to competing and winning in the NCAA championships.

A ragtag team of American volunteers, socialists and outcasts fight alongside the Kurdish militia known as the YPG to beat ISIS in Syria and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of war.

Set in 1983, divorcée Ruth Coker Burks lives a busy life. She is devoted to her work, her six-year-old daughter Jessica, and is a devout Christian. When a handsome new neighbor turns out to be a gay New-Yorker who has fled the City and returned home after the death of his partner to AIDS, she decides to educate herself on the epidemic sweeping the country. Ruth becomes a champion and caregiver for AIDS sufferers in 1980s America.

Jose Miguel Battle Sr. escapes to the United States, where he and other Cubans are trained by the CIA to invade the country in an ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

The true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation – and a class of practically unteachable young boys. However, when he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil slicked beach, his life is turned upside down – and the penguin becomes not only a valued friend, but also a teacher of life’s most important lessons, for Tom, the boys and, in fact, everyone he meets.

A biopic based on the true story of South African-born British Olympian and former world champion athlete Precious McKenzie.